If you’re working in a shop that uses SubVersion and also utilizes any form of branching you will probably run into a point in time where you have 10 different copies of your source tree on your disk. Usually you will have one copy per branch. If your project is small this usually isn’t a problem, but if your project is large it is a royal pain. At my current gig our project contains well over 35K files. That’s not lines of code, that’s actual number of files. It’s _huge_. Solution: Use the svn switch command. The svn switch command does the following: This subcommand...
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I installed Windows 7 RC last night and my dual monitor support was not working. I queried a few people at my employer and Anthony Handley pointed me in the right direction. If you’re using a Dell D630 laptop and you’re running Windows 7 RC and need a video driver to support dual monitors, we’ve found this one to work out quite well: Download the driver on Dell.com Notes: The install requires a reboot, but afterwards the dual monitor support works without an issue....
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This an oldie, but a goodie. Not many people use this tool, much less know about it or where it exists. By default when you install VS2008 (I’m not sure if its part of 2005 or not) you have a tool at your disposal in the Visual Studio install path: My Path: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\ide\ In this path, you’ll find a tool called “WcfTestClient.exe” It is located here: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\ide\WcfTestClient.exe Fire this bad boy up and here’s the screen you get: You can add a service endpoint by right clicking on...
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Lately I’ve been doing some vocal recording in my home studio for a friend of mine. His producers/mixers/collaborators/etc that perform the final mix downs of the tracks live in either New York, Chicago, LA, or pretty much everywhere else other than where I live (Minneapolis). As you may know, PCM Wav files can run very large very quick. If I record _one_ song with backups, fill ins, chorus, hooks, ad-libs, etc I can easily hit 40-50 individual tracks. Each track being when mixed down through Adobe Audtion is about 35 MB each. As you can see, this could easily be anywhere from 1.4-1.7 GB...
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Unfortunately most presenters do not think about font size until about 10 _after_ they show code to an audience. Its usually followed by the confirmation question from the presenter that goes something like this: “Hey, can you guys see the code?” Most of the time the answer is… “No, bigger font please … ”. 2 minutes later the font is larger, but usually its only the code editor window. What about the solution explorer, output window, menu’s, etc? Nope, it is still an 8pt font that strains your audiences eyes. Big Font to the Rescue I have a Visual...
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